Ground Control to Major Tom...

Comments

• Section42L

  2016-01-15 19:39:52

  We can do anything if we do it together.

  Ashes to ashes, funk to funky. We know Major Tom's a junkie.
  
  Strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all time low...
• Fossilmaiden

  2016-01-15 19:41:29

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Ground control to Lesser Dog~
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-15 20:10:42 edited 2016-01-15 20:10:56

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  

  
  

  Ground control to Greater Dog
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 20:36:27

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Yarrun XIX said:

  

  
  

  Ground control to Greater Dog

  
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-01-15 20:43:34

  Ground Control can contact Cirno all it wants; Cirno's not gonna listen.
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 20:44:52

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I think I just broke the world by doubling down on the "depressing song" motif here, despite the Undertale jokes.
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-15 20:49:43 edited 2016-01-15 20:54:55

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  

  
  

  This is now a sad song thread
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 20:53:25

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  There is a logical through-line vis à vis isolation and astronaut dying => space dog dying => family black sheep as space dog. Does "Brontë" deal with emotional isolation?
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-15 20:55:19

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  okay, new goal of thread is to create a logical through-line to Bronte

  
  

  changed my earlier post
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-15 21:01:12

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  astronaut dying => space dog dying => family black sheep as space dog => singer pictures himself as a black sheep
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 21:03:55

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Having listened to "Brontë" and seen the music video now—which almost made me cry; good job, Yarrun—this is the logical connector:

  
  

  
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 21:04:34

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Seriously, look up the lyrics.
• Obā-san

  2016-01-15 21:05:28

  
  

  
• Corvina

  2016-01-15 21:06:44

  Vampire Lady of Corvidia
  
  (The other Jane)
  

  Spaceboy, 
  you're sleepy now 
  Your silhouette is so stationary
  You're released but your custody calls
  And I want to be free
  Don't you want to be free
  Do you like girls or boys
  It's confusing these days
  But Moondust will cover you
  Cover you
• Tre

  2016-01-15 21:07:18

  
  

  If this is the same Bronte I'm thinking about then oh God the feels. I don't even have any particular pet that's been dear to my heart and that one stings.
  
  Gotye FTW. I know he's been doing stuff with the Basics these days, but there's something about his solo work that just speaks to the soul. I'm a little disappointed that he's considered a one-hit wonder in the US, his work is much better than any such status would imply.
• Section42L

  2016-01-15 21:07:32

  We can do anything if we do it together.

  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 21:08:51 edited 2016-01-15 21:09:44

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  ^^^^ That works for entirely different reasons, but it doesn't *quite* connect to either "Why Won't They Talk to Me?" or "Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)" to "Brontë" thematically—or does it?

  
  

  ^ That is another thing entirely!
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-15 21:09:22

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  

  
  

  it is now the proper time
• Section42L

  2016-01-15 21:11:04

  We can do anything if we do it together.

  ^^ It does sorta relate back to the original song in the topic in a weird way, and particularly to the sequel song that I quoted in my initial response.
• Obā-san

  2016-01-15 21:11:45

  
  

  well the connection to Brontë should be obvious, but I have no clue what those other songs are about so
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 21:12:36

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  So, how to connect "Wuthering Heights", "Trespassers W", "Brontë", and "Ladies and Gentlemen..." thematically? Hmmmm.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I'm reading imaginary

  characters with motives

  that I should question,

  I should point out...
• Obā-san

  2016-01-15 21:13:46

  
  

  I really have no clue what is happening in this thread so
• Section42L

  2016-01-15 21:15:04

  We can do anything if we do it together.

  I admit I just posted a sad song at random myself, although by coincidence it does relate to "Ashes to Ashes" in a weird way.
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-15 21:16:24

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  This is a fun game. We should do this more often
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 21:17:57

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Today is Tomorrow said:

  well the connection to Brontë should be obvious, but I have no clue what those other songs are about so

  "Brontë" has one big theme that the lyrics and the video portray somewhat differently. I'll leave it to you to watch it when you like.

  
  

  "Trespassers W", though, is about isolation, particularly in the face of the loss of faith or a more general guiding principle that one had in youth, and nods to the Winnie-the-Pooh stories in the title; meanwhile, "Ladies and Gentlemen..." references a famous line in Sophie's World, which is about an entirely different set of philosophical concerns.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-15 21:21:25

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  "Inventory", on the other hand, is about paranoia and obsession turning everything in your life into a horrifying trial.